MICR Code: 208002069

Bank: State Bank of India
IFSC Code: Sbin0008971
MICR Code: 208002069
Address: B-13, Sarvodaya Nagar , Kanpur Pin - 208005
City: Bageshwar
District: Kanpur
State: Uttarakhand

MICR is acronym of Magnetic Ink Character Recognition. Basically it is a character-recognition technology used by the banking industry to ease the processing and clearance of cheques and other documents.

Generally MICR code is nine character long. First three charaters represent city, next three charaters represents bank name and last three charaters represents bank branch.

Let's decode MICR code 208002069.

  • In this case first three codes 208 is city code and it represents city Bageshwar.
  • Next three characters 002 represents bank State Bank of India.
  • Remaining characters which are 069 represents branch. In our case branch is located at address B-13, Sarvodaya Nagar , Kanpur Pin - 208005.

The easiest way to find MICR code is to check your

  1. Bank account statement
  2. Cheques

Please examine below sample cheque for more details

I hope this clears doubts.